Leslie Gray

Leslie Gray

Associate Professor

Teaching and Research Vision

Leslie Gray is a geographer who teaches classes that emphasize global environment, development and population issues. Her current research considers the environmental and equity dimensions surrounding global cotton production, focusing on how the agricultural subsidies given to farmers in wealthy countries affect poor farmers in West Africa. She has published articles on environmental policy, land degradation, and women's access to resources in Burkina Faso and Sudan. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright/IIE and the Social Science Research Council. She has also done work for several international organizations, including CARE, Catholic Relief Services, UNDP, ILO and the World Bank.

Gray, Leslie, Patricia Guzman, Kathryn Glowa and Anne Drevno. 2014 Can home gardens scale up into movements for social change? The role of home gardens in providing food security and community change in San Jose, California. Local Environment 19.2: 187-203.

Gray, L. 2003. Investing in Soil Quality: Farmer Responses to Land Scarcity in Southwestern Burkina Faso, in African Savannas: New Perspectives on the Environment and Social Change, Bassett, T and Crummey, D (eds.). UK: James Curry and USA: Heinemann.